Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 10 , Pages 1942-1946 , October 2009

Impact of spinal anesthesia for open pyloromyotomy on operating room time

  • Ludmyla Kachko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesia, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 49202, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 3 925 30 80, +972 3 925 30 83; fax: +972 3 925 32 79.
    • Contributed equally to this work.
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  • Eliahu Simhi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesia, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 49202, Israel
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    • Contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Enrique Freud

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 49202 Israel
    • ,
  • Elena Dlugy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 49202 Israel
    • ,
  • Jacob Katz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesia, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 49202, Israel

Received 19 December 2008 ,Revised 23 March 2009 ,Accepted 26 March 2009.

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PII: S0022-3468(09)00310-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.03.038

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 10 , Pages 1942-1946 , October 2009

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